Senior paid social buyer.
Meta + Instagram + TikTok + LinkedIn + Pinterest + Snapchat + Reddit. Creative direction. Server-side CAPI. Named, embedded, replaceable in 72 hours.
Embed a vetted senior paid social buyer (Meta + TikTok + LinkedIn + Pinterest + Snapchat + Reddit) in your team. Creative direction included at Senior tier. Server-side CAPI deployed week 1. From $4,199/mo (mid) to $10,499/mo (principal). 14-day fit guarantee.
Senior paid social buyer, embedded in your team.
The role.
A hired Senior Paid Social Buyer is a vetted media-buying + creative-direction specialist embedded in your team to run Meta (Facebook + Instagram), TikTok, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, Reddit, and X / Twitter advertising. Distinct from a media buyer who only optimises bids (no creative direction) and from a creative agency that produces ads but does not buy media. Senior + Principal tiers cover both — strategy, creative briefing, production oversight, and media buying as one continuous workflow. Specialisations covered: Meta Advantage+ + TikTok VBO bidding, creative briefing + iteration cadence (3–5 fresh variants/week at scale), server-side CAPI + Events API deployment, whitelisting + dark-post strategy for creator content amplification, and incrementality testing via GeoLift + hold-out audiences.
When you hire one.
Four common scenarios: DTC + consumer brands spending $15k–$200k/month on Meta + TikTok needing daily creative iteration + audience saturation rotation + iOS-attribution-restored CAPI, B2B SaaS running LinkedIn-first paired with Meta retargeting against long sales-cycle attribution windows, EdTech + lifestyle brands running TikTok + Instagram with influencer + UGC paired into paid amplification (whitelisting), and agencies needing white-label paid social buying with brand-suppressed reporting + dedicated PM. Below $15k/month ad spend, a single buyer typically does not pay back — we recommend audit + sprint instead.
How we match.
Send role spec + Meta / TikTok read-only access on day 0. We send 2–3 named buyer profiles within 48–72 hours with vetted CV + creative samples + ROAS track record on similar accounts. Your top candidate sends a saturation-curve preview showing where audience fatigue is hurting your account before you commit — most clients hire based on the audit insight, not the pitch deck. Specialist embedded by day 8: first creative iteration in week 1, CAPI health check immediate. Creative iteration ships 3–5 fresh variants per week at scale to stay ahead of 7–14-day creative decay. 14-day fit window with 72-hour replacement.
Eight productised paid social specialisations.
Meta Ads (Facebook + Instagram)
Advantage+ campaign automation, custom audiences (lookalike, interest, retargeting, exclusions), Reels-first creative mix, server-side CAPI, brand vs non-brand split, A/B testing programme, broad-targeting + creative-led testing methodology. The largest paid social network — most engagements anchor here.
TikTok Ads
Spark Ads (organic-amplified), lookalike audiences from organic engagement, creator whitelisting via TikTok Creator Marketplace, category-specific dayparting, TikTok Events API for iOS-restored attribution. Every senior bench buyer has run TikTok on a real production budget ($50k+/mo at some point in their career).
LinkedIn Ads
Separate specialist sub-track for B2B above $1,000 ACV. Sales Navigator integration, Conversion API, account-list (ABM) targeting via Demandbase / 6sense / Clearbit, document + lead-gen-form formats, retargeting on engaged accounts. Highest-CAC-but-highest-LTV channel for B2B SaaS / FinTech / professional services.
Pinterest + Snapchat + Reddit
Pinterest for intent-rich home/fashion/food/wedding/beauty categories. Snapchat for under-30 demographic + regional fit. Reddit for community-targeted technical + niche-interest categories (developers, gaming, finance). Run case-by-case where audience fit warrants — not blanket-deployed.
Creative direction + briefing
3–5 fresh creative variants per week at scale. Briefing standards (hook-first 5–15 sec cuts, problem/agitation/solution structure, UGC-style production guidance), production oversight, A/B test design. Senior + Principal tiers own creative direction; Mid-Level tier executes against existing briefs.
Server-side CAPI + Events API
Meta CAPI, TikTok Events API, LinkedIn CAPI, Pinterest CAPI, Snapchat CAPI deployed via GTM Server-Side. Deduplication via event ID, hashed first-party data, offline conversion uploads. Restores 8–18% of iOS-blocked attribution; foundation for clean optimisation.
Whitelisting + dark posts
Captures creator content as paid social ads under their handle (Meta Branded Content tools, TikTok Spark Ads). Typically 2–4× brand-handle paid social performance. Pairs with influencer-marketing programmes — paired creator content amplified as paid is one of the highest-ROI levers.
Incrementality testing
GeoLift (geo-based hold-out testing) at sufficient spend, hold-out audiences in Meta + TikTok, Marketing Mix Modeling at $5M+ ad spend, MTA hybrid attribution below. Measures real lift over what would have happened without the spend — required for honest ROAS reporting at scale.
The numbers that make embedded paid social buyer economics work.
Embedded buyer vs in-house buyer + freelance creative.
BOTTOM LINE: HIRE-A-TEAM PAIRS BUYING + CREATIVE DIRECTION IN ONE SENIOR PERSON. SPLITTING THEM ACROSS BUYER + FREELANCER CREATIVE WORKS, BUT ADDS COORDINATION COST + LATENCY.
DTC + B2B brands needing creative + buying in one specialist.
DTC brands
Meta + TikTok-led. Daily creative iteration. Audience saturation rotation.
B2B SaaS
LinkedIn-first paired with Meta retargeting. Long-window attribution.
EdTech / lifestyle
TikTok + Instagram. Influencer + UGC paired with paid amplification.
Agencies (white-label)
Resell paid social buying. Brand-suppressed reporting. Dedicated PM included.
Brief → match → embed. 14-day fit period.
Brief + ad-account access
Role spec + Meta/TikTok read-only access.
Shortlist
2–3 named buyers — vetted CV + creative samples + ROAS track record.
Intro calls + audit
Top candidate sends saturation-curve preview. Intro calls.
Start
First creative iteration in week 1. CAPI health check immediate.
14-day fit
Replace inside 72 hours if not fit. No charge for trial.
What this specialist ships every week.
Creative iteration
3–5 new creatives weekly. Static + motion. Format-specific.
Audience strategy
Lookalike + interest + retargeting + exclusions.
Server-side CAPI
Meta CAPI + TikTok Events API. iOS signal restoration.
Whitelisting
Creator UGC amplified as paid. Permissions + dark posts.
Attribution sanity
GeoLift + hold-out audiences for incrementality.
Reporting
Per-platform + blended. Weekly Loom.
Three tiers. All include PM.
Single-platform buying + iteration.
- 80 hrs/mo
- 1 platform
- Dedicated PM
- 14-day fit
Multi-platform + creative direction + CAPI.
- 120 hrs/mo
- 2–3 platforms
- Creative direction
- CAPI implementation
Multi-account creative-led leadership.
- 160 hrs/mo
- Multi-account
- Production-team leadership
- Function-level oversight
Common questions.
Do hired Paid Social buyers produce creative or only buy media? +
Both — at the senior tier. Creative direction + briefing + production oversight is part of every Senior ($5,499–$7,199/mo) and Principal ($7,999–$10,499/mo) tier engagement. Mid-Level ($2,999–$4,199/mo) buyers focus on media buying and rely on your in-house creative team or our paired creative production. On Multi-Channel ($5,999/mo) and Full Pod ($14,999/mo) retainers, creative production runs through our in-house static + motion + UGC team. Most paid social engagements ship 15–25 fresh creative variants per month at scale.
Do hired Paid Social buyers handle TikTok specifically? +
Yes — every senior buyer on our Hire-a-Team bench has run TikTok Ads on a real production budget (typically $50k+/month at some point in their career). TikTok is creative-led, not bid-led — so the buyer's creative-direction skill matters more than bid-strategy savvy. Spark Ads, lookalike audiences from organic engagement, creator whitelisting, and category-specific dayparting are all standard. We will tell you honestly if your brand is not TikTok-fit (most B2B above $10k ACV is not).
Are LinkedIn paid social buyers covered under Hire-a-Team? +
Yes — separate specialist sub-track for B2B-led LinkedIn programmes, paired with our SaaS / B2B / FinTech / Manufacturing vertical expertise. LinkedIn Ads is the highest-CAC-but-highest-LTV channel for B2B SaaS above $1,000 ACV; below that ACV, retarget-only on LinkedIn typically outperforms broad-net. LinkedIn buyers ship Sales Navigator integration, Conversion API, account-list (ABM) targeting, and document/lead-gen-form ad formats. Standard at Senior and Principal tiers.
Can you match a Paid Social buyer to my time zone? +
Yes — minimum 4 working hours of overlap with your local business day, guaranteed. Senior buyers span US Eastern, US Pacific, UK/EU, IST, SGT, AEDT. Most clients pair with whoever overlaps your peak iteration hours (typically the morning when you review yesterday's creative performance). Real-time Slack response inside the overlap window; async Loom updates outside it. For 24-hour creative rotation cadence on high-spend accounts, we sometimes pair two buyers across complementary time zones.
Will my Meta or TikTok ad account get flagged or banned? +
No — every move documented in writing, no suspicious patterns, no creative review-baiting, no policy-edge testing. Clean account hygiene is an explicit hiring filter at the senior tier — buyers with a history of account issues (Meta restrictions, TikTok suspensions, Google policy strikes) do not make our bench. We document every change in the account history log + your shared Notion workspace, so you have a paper trail if any platform raises a question. Account-restoration support included if pre-existing issues surface.
What is the replacement guarantee for hired Paid Social buyers? +
72-hour replacement during the first 14-day fit window if the match is not working — either side can call it, no further obligation, pro-rata refund for unused days. After day 14, replacement runs through standard 30-day notice with full handover documentation (account audit trail, creative library, audience structures, bidding strategy notes, custom audience exports). Replacement is rare in practice — under 8% of monthly engagements ever trigger it because we match by sector + creative aesthetic + working style up front, not just channel skill.
Send your Meta + TikTok access.
Read-only is fine. 2–3 named buyer profiles inside 48–72 hours + a saturation-curve preview from your top candidate.